John Bull stands turned away. A sign on his right reads "Counting House" while papers in the trash on the same side read "Dead Losses" and "List of Blockade Captures." On the other side of the floor is a paper labelled "Threatened Reprisals." With the realization that the Confederacy was losing the war, Britain began to pull away from support of the southern cause. This allowed them to secure their own financial holdings and not tie them up in a doomed enterprise like the Confederacy.